Title: Marginal Scribe: Studies in the Gospel of Matthew in a Social-Scientific Perspective

Author: Duling, Dennis C

Publisher: Cascade Books; Publication Date: 2011

Paperback; ISBN: 9781606080856

Volumes: 1; Pages: 410

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A Marginal Scribe collects eight studies written over a period of two decades, all of which use social-scientific criticism to interpret the Gospel of Matthew. It prefaces them, first, with a new chapter on the struggle between historians and social scientists since the Enlightenment and its parallel in New Testament studies, which culminated in the emergence of social-scientific criticism; and, second, with a new chapter on recent social-scientific interpretation of the Gospel of Matthew. The eight, more specialized studies cover a variety of themes and use a variety of models but concentrate and are held together by those that illumine social ranking and marginality. The book closes with a chapter that ties together these studies.